Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings A poster of Joseph Stalin hangs in a shop window in Mukden, China, in 1946.
In March of 1953, Moscow, and the rest of the Soviet Union, fell under a spell. On March 5th, a sombre male voice on the radio, heard on loudspeakers mounted in public spaces throughout the U.S.S.R., ...
Dictators are sensitive about the biographies written about them. Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union’s ruler from the late 1920s until his death in 1953, was no exception. After commissioning an official ...
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Joseph Stalin took Ukraine’s food while millions were starving, then the Soviet Union tried to control the story - "Hunger became a weapon."
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 is often discussed through the events of recent decades, but the historical conflict ...
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Joseph Stalin and the birth of a totalitarian state
Joseph Stalin did not begin life as a conqueror or tyrant. Born in 1878 as Josef Vissarionovich Djugashvili in what is now Georgia, he came from poverty, abuse, and instability. His father, an ...
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Russian Revolution may have ended the reign of the tsars, but it ...
GORI, GEORGIA—The specter of Joseph Stalin haunts every inch of the room. Sculptures, portraits, and framed newspaper clippings of the moustached dictator populate the hallways. Stalin’s wood tobacco ...
TBILISI, Georgia — A shiny shard of nose and a crumbling sliver of whiskers from a long-destroyed stone statue are among Grigori Oniani's most prized possessions. That's because the pieces once were ...
Russian Communists queue to lay flowers at Stalin's grave to mark the 130th anniversary of his birth in Red Square, Moscow.Ivan Sekretarev / AP It’s hard to imagine any of Russia’s current leaders ...
The people of Georgia have no reason to love Joseph Stalin. And yet they do, despite the fact the Soviet dictator invaded the country in 1921 and, in the years that followed, oversaw the deaths of at ...
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Ukraine is bringing charges against Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his ...
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